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Acute of sudden onset and short duration Chronic continuing a long time or recurring frequently E codes alphanumeric designatons preceded by the letter E, used to classify external causes V codes used to classify persons who are not currently sick when they encounter health services Volume 1, ICD-9-CM diseases: tabular list Volume 2, ICD-9-CM alphabetic index of diseases Volume 3, ICD-9-CM tabular list and alphabetic index of procedures used primarily in the hospital setting Primary Diagnosis a diagnosis that represents the patient's major illness or condition for an encounter. Principal Diagnosis the condition determined after study which resulted in the patient's admission to the hospital Rubric heading used as a direction or explanation as to what follows and the way in which the information is to be used. ICD-9-CM coding, the rubric is the 3 digit code that precedes the four and five digit codes. Diagnostic That done to identify the cause, origin, or extent of a condition Therapeutic a branch of medical science dealing with the application of remedies to disease Morbidity a diseased state or symptom; the incidence of disease Mortality quality of state of being mortal; the number of deaths in a given time or place Malignant tending to produce death or deterioration, tending to infiltrate, metastisiz, and terminate fatally Benign not progressive AHA American Hospital Association AHIMA American Health Information Management Association NEC not elsewhere classifiable NOS Not otherwise specified ICD-9-CM International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification in situ malignancy that is within the original site of development and has not invaded neighboring tissue congenital existing from birth italicized code an ICD-9-CM code that can never be sequenced as the principal or primary diagnosis... prophylactic Substance or agent that offers some protection from disease late effect the residual effect (condition produced) after the acute phase of an illness or injury has terminated secondary site place to which a malignant tumor has spread; metastatic site... eponym a disease, structure, operation, or procedure named for the person who discovered or described it first combination code a single code that classifies both the etiology and manifestation of an illness or injury. asymptomatic Not showing typical symptoms of a disease or condition. ambi- both ecto- out, outside, outer meso- the middle trans- Across artific/i not natural comat- a deep sleep dors- backward eti/o cause hist/o tissue path- disease prurit- Itching son/o sound cide- to kill gnosis- knowledge phragm- fence sepsis- decay -y condition or process of -pnea breathing -ptysis spitting or spit -ity condition; state of being